Max Dupain was one of Australia's outstanding photographers of the mid 20th century, specialising in architecture, merchandise, industrial and portrait commissions, as well as his own landscape and scenery compositions. His works have been exhibited widely and form the basis of various books.
Max Dupain made a portrait of the young Woodward-Smith in 1934 featuring the same vertical pole used in his surrealist Dart of 1934. However, the portrait could have been connected with Wodoward-Smith's solo show at Grosvenor Gallery that year.